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A Wisconsin developer who’s best known for sports stadiums wants to deck over train tracks near Soldier Field and McCormick Place and create a multibillion-dollar development, adding to a ballooning list of super-ambitious real estate projects in Chicago.

Bob Dunn, who has been involved in constructing stadiums for the NFL’s Detroit Lions and Minnesota Vikings and a renovation of the Green Bay Packers’ Lambeau Field, leads a group that wants to construct several towers over Metra Electric train tracks between McFetridge Drive and 20th Street, according to people familiar with the plan.

The preliminary plan is to build millions of square feet of space for...

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